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Youth justice and corrections

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Program model

Youth and adult offender clients create and present a detailed plan to a magistrate, setting out how they will address offending behaviour pre-sentence, in custody and post-sentence.

Program snapshot

Who it is for
Youth and adult offender clients
Duration
6 weeks · 1 hour weekly
Delivery
Group or one to one
Cohort size
6–10 participants

What the organisation receives

Facilitator-led delivery at your site or online, scheduled around your existing program calendar.

A personalised, visually based workbook for every attendee, theirs to keep.

Attendance, completion and statistical reporting generated from the SIRITIS case management system.

A close-out summary per cohort that your case managers can actually use.

What participants do

Participants build the plan themselves and learn to present it. Self-advocacy is taught explicitly: participants take ownership and speak for themselves, creating a practice they carry into every other service they touch.

Why this program exists

27×

detention rate

First Nations young people were 27 times as likely as non-Indigenous young people to be in detention in 2022–23, and around 84 per cent of those in detention were unsentenced — held before a matter is decided. Target 11, a 30 per cent cut in youth detention by 2031, recorded no change from its baseline in the July 2025 data.

AIHW, Closing the Gap targets: key findings and implications, 2025; Productivity Commission, Annual Data Compilation Report, July 2025

End-of-program checklist

  • Participant can name the concern in their own words.
  • Participant holds a plan with a first step and a date.
  • Case manager has the close-out summary and reporting extract.
  • Referral pathway agreed for anyone who needs more support.

What it is not

  • Not case management
  • Not counselling
  • Not therapy
  • Not clinical treatment
  • Not a replacement for employment conditions

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